Belt.



W DUECKER.

BELT. APPLICAT ION FiLED NOV-1'9. 1914. I

1. ,%@3,859. Patented Nov. 7,1916.

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BELT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ratented Nov. "3, 1916.

Application filed November 19,1914. Serial No. 873,053.

belt which will not stretch and to providea belt the "constitutent elements of which will not separate.

It is within the province of the invention to provide a belt which may be rendered water proof in a novel manner.

The invention contemplates the construction whereby no raw edgeswill be left upon the facing which is applied to the body portion of the belt.

It is within the scope of the invention to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

\Vith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, itbeing understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departa stretcher, as hereinbefore described, and

whilein a stretched condition, the exterior of the facing 8 is coated with cement indi-' cated at 12. By means of cement shown at 14, the facing 8 is attached to the working surface of a leather belt body 15.

The facing is co-extensive inlength and width with the respective leather body. Further, since the edges of the textile body are turned in, as shown at 9, there are no raw or ragged edges adjacent the lateral edges of the belt.

As shown in 2, the ends of the body portion of the belt are beveled and its beveled ends are overlapped and cemented together as shown at 19. The ends of the facing 8 are beveled, overlapped and cemented as shown at 20. the overlapped portions 19 and 20 of the body and the facing respectively being located out of alinement with each other.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is z A driving belt comprising a leather body;-

a textile facing the longitudinal edges of which are folded inwardly toward each other in opposite directions and are located in a common plane, the inwardly folded edges of the facing being secured to the body, and the body being of substantially the same width as thefacing; and a core within the facing and substantially filling the same; the ends of the body being beveled and overlapped and the ends of the facing and the core being beveled and overlapped, the bevcls of the body on the one hand and of the facing and the core upon the other hand being inclined in opposite directions.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixcd my signature in the presence of twoovitnesses.

' WILLIAM DUECKER.

\Vitnesses H. BAILEY, R. B. BIDDLE. 

